[YouTube channel 'Gamst GAMST']
[YouTube channel 'Gamst GAMST']

YouTuber Gamst wore a pair of AI-powered glasses purchased for about 900,000 won ($675) and attempted the math section of South Korea's College Scholastic Ability Test, getting only five questions wrong.

On Friday, Gamst posted a video to his YouTube channel "Gamst GAMST" in which he bought and tested the AI glasses, which have recently sparked controversy as a potential tool for cheating on exams.

Gamst said his math grades in high school were in the sixth or seventh rating bracket — near the bottom of the scale — adding that he "barely knows any math."

He then put on the AI glasses and worked through past CSAT math problems. The method involved photographing each question through the glasses and prompting the AI to provide the correct answer.

Gamst staged the attempt to mimic real exam conditions — asking for his answer sheet to be swapped, announcing he was stepping out to use the restroom, and calling out question numbers one by one while urging the AI to respond quickly.

After finishing, he checked his answers against the answer key and said he had gotten five questions wrong.

"Even someone like me who knows nothing about math only got five wrong," he said, expressing surprise. He also noted that he had finished with about 50 minutes still remaining.

Gamst explained that by setting up a prompt in advance, a user can solve any problem in front of them with a single button press. "I set it up so only the actual answer appears on screen — no working shown," he said. He added that multiple-choice questions were typically solved within five seconds, and claimed that "30 minutes of practice is all you need."

"Anyone who used this illegally to pass an exam should feel guilty," he said.

However, Gamst also raised the concern that students who wear ordinary prescription glasses could be wrongly suspected of cheating. "It would be a disaster if a student wearing perfectly normal glasses were suspected," he said, calling for thorough checks of electronic devices and eyewear before exams.


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